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Imagine you are a plebeian and write a newspaper account of the eruption in AD79
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Imagine you are a plebeian and write a newspaper account of the eruption in AD79 It was the 24th August AD79. It was just another summer's day. As I walked through the town of Pompeii I saw the tradesmen removing the shutters from their shops and hanging up their merchandise. Clothes were being washed in the laundry of Stephanus. The baker placed his dough next to the fire. I felt the earthquake so strongly that morning it shook the whole town. I had noticed several small shudders before today, but nothing as intense as the shudder we just had. It was then when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The ground shook and charred fragments began to fall. It spread as far as Stabie. I grabbed a cushion and tied it to my head, hoping to protect myself from the hail of pumice that was pelting down onto me. By the end of the...
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